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New England dirt-worshipper / Dog room-mate / Someone’s dad
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DWdaveweigel.bsky.social

Amazing

Zachary Levi endorsing Trump
Shazam endorsing Lex Luthor
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LDellethevillain.bsky.social

It's dizzying to think about how easily and noiselessly you can be plucked from your life and entered into a system built to manufacture the justification of your murder and no amount of love or evidence, no visibility, no mobilization of a community formed under your name can save you

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DZdavidzipper.bsky.social

Finally, the Biden administration is taking a stand against car bloat. NHTSA has proposed banning SUV/pickup hood designs that are especially likely to cause head injuries. In Fast Company, I explained why this could be a watershed moment. 🧵 www.fastcompany.com/91195993/car...

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ROpicardsteacup.bsky.social

i hold that millenials are the only generation that actually knows how to use computers. everyone before and after just... doesnt

a discord conversation where someone doesnt know what an exe file is
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ASswin24.bsky.social

First they came for Donald Trump and I said nothing because crime is illegal Then they came for Diddy, and I said nothing because he added virtually nothing memorable or innovative to hip hop and I forgot he was alive still Then they came for

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PApixelatedboat.bsky.social

Okay but have you considered that press button feel good

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It should be hosted in Portugal (The Man)

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TStomscocca.bsky.social

It just seemed like news that Trump was raving in Nassau County about driving out people who came from "the Congo....Africa..the Middle East...Asia," and then it seemed even more like news that none of the coverage mentioned it defector.com/where-racism...

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The former and would-be future president continued: 

They're coming from the Congo, they're coming from Africa, they're coming from the Middle East, they're coming from all over the world—Asia! A lot of it coming from Asia. And what's happening to our country is we're just destroying the fabric of life in our country, and we're not going to take it any longer, and you got to get rid of these people. Give me a shot.

This was spectacularly racist, explicitly racist against the majority of all the nonwhite people on Earth, the most racist thing I'd seen a presidential candidate—Donald Trump included—say in my lifetime. It was a barrage straight out of a Ku Klux Klan rally: Congo! Africa! Middle East! Asia! We're not going to take it any longer! Get rid of these people!
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I would have said it was obviously shocking, except both shock and obviousness have become tenuous concepts in American politics. When I went to look up references to the quote after seeing it go by on social media, I began to worry that the original poster might have made it up for clout; I saw no mention of Trump talking about "the Congo" last night on Google News or in major reporters' Twitter accounts. 

But I went to C-SPAN and there Trump was, saying it. The Nassau County crowd—in what the New York Post recently reported that U.S. News had rated the safest community in the country—cheered as Trump vowed to drive out the immigrant crime menace. "November 5 will be your Liberation Day," he told them.
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BMbcmerchant.bsky.social

This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.* Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy. And big tech has nothing to say about it. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...

AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself
AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself

Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways

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@fearfulsymmetry.bsky.social
New England dirt-worshipper / Dog room-mate / Someone’s dad
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